Month: December 2014

December 30, 2014pscullyComments Off on Republican Party Chief Objects to Malloy Appointees’ Pay Raises…a Week After the Fact

When Gov. Dan Malloy’s budget director Ben Barnes announced two days before Christmas that some Malloy appointees would be getting pay raises, the criticism was certainly predictable (if somewhat unfair). Now the head of state […]

A governor is inaugurated and gives a state-of-the-state address; a corrupt, former governor is sentenced; a convicted, former state senator goes on trial; and a new session of the General Assembly begins. It’s an extraordinarily […]

What seemed initially to be a death blow to the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation’s (STN) bid for federal recognition and likely a resulting effort for an Indian casino in Kent, no seems to be just another […]

It doesn’t take an academic study to realize that the Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods casinos are hurting. Slot revenue is down which means revenue flowing to the state—25 percent of the tribes’ slots—is down which […]

If the “best and the brightest” were watching what recently happened in Simsbury, they likely said, “no thanks.” If we wonder why good, qualified and effective people don’t run for public office, we need only […]